Improvement in lamp-tops



C. DORFUNGER. Lamp Burner. No." 36,079. l I Patented Aug. 5'1862 Ny PETERS, PhowLilnogmpher. waihingmn, D. C.

UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN DORFLINGNER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEM ENT IN LAMP-TOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,079, dated August 5,1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHRISTIAN DORFLIN- GER, of Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improvedy Top' for Lamps Burning Kerosene, Coal, and

pel the breadth of the flame to correspond with the greatest breadth of the 'oval chimneys, and also that the screw, spring, Or other fastening, being applied on one of the flat sides of the oval, shall hold the chimney more secure than it can be done Ona round top.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by patent, is-

The making of the top of lamp-burners oval instead of round, so as to receive and fit all Oval'base lamp-chimneys, in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

New York, June 13, 1862.

, C. DORFLINGER. Witnesses:

ROBERT C. EMBREE, J OsEPH OBRIEN. 

